victorwkf's VirtualTourist Home Page

Thanks a lot for visiting my VT webpages, hope you will find the travel information and photographs useful!

I'm having some difficulties building new VT pages lately due to the busy work schedule and birth of my daughter. Often I feel very tired after work and weekends are rather packed too. However, I will continue to find sometime to build the VT pages, especially when I am on leave or during weekend mornings when I am fresh from a good night sleep :)

In the meantime, wish everyone all the best, good health and happy travels !

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My wife gave birth to baby girl Andrea in July 2009, and we are all very happy with the new addition to the family :-) Andrea is a lovely girl, and both my wife and her are doing well. With fatherhood, this will mean I have less travelling for now :-)

I love to travel and take photographs during travelling. To me travelling is more than just visiting various places, but it is an insight into the exciting culture, landscape and people of various countries. Travel has thought me that the world we live in is a very diverse and dynamic place, and therefore we have to understand and be tolerant of other people and cultures. In this way, there will be more understanding, less conflict and violence and the world will be a better place for all to live in.

Scheduled travels:
Hong Kong (Nov 2009, confirmed)

I have updated my VT Singapore page to include information and photographs of the Singapore Flyer, a huge ferris wheel equivalent of the London Eye. It was officially launched in early 2008 and offer great panoramic views of the Singapore city and surrounding areas.

Other latest VT pages built/updated are as follows:

Brentwood Bay (Canada) - UPDATE (On-going)
Salzburg (Austria) - UPDATE (On-going)
Tumut (Australia) - UPDATE (Completed)
Vancouver (Canada) - UPDATE (On-going)
Venice (Italy) - UPDATE (On-going)
Vienna (Austria) - UPDATE (On-going)
Victoria (Canada) - UPDATE (On-going)
Wagga Wagga (Australia) - UPDATE (On-going)
Whistler (Canada) - UPDATE (On-going)

Singapore is a modern, clean, safe and beautiful island country in South East Asia. There are many things to see and do here, as well as lots of delicious food to saviour the taste buds !

More information and photographs are at my VT Singapore page as well as various VT pages on different parts of Singapore such as Serangoon (my home), Kampong Ubi, Changi Village, Mount Faber, Pulau Ubin etc. Do drop by and have a look at these VT pages which I have constructed.

I live in the south-eastern part of Singapore which is very rich in traditional landmarks such as Serangoon (where I now live), Katong, Geylang Serai, Joo Chiat, Serangoon etc. It is also a very convenient place to reach the city area and there is also a MRT sub-way station (Farrer Park station) nearby. More information and photographs of the interesting areas around my house are at my VT Serangoon page.

Besides travelling, I also enjoy playing tennis, watching soccer (support Everton), surfing the internet, exploring around Singapore, webpage design etc.

Arctic Circle (crossing it at the Dalton Highway, Alaska)
Cape Byron (most easterly point of Australia)
Cape Spear (most easterly point of North America)
Great Barrier Reef (biggest natural structure in the world)
Great Wall of China (longest man-made structure in the world)
Equator (crossing it at the Lingga Islands, Indonesia)
Homer Spit (second longest spit in the world)
Hong Kong (most crowded city in the world)
Kali Gandaki Gorge (deepest gorge in the world)
Krimml Falls (highest waterfalls in Austria)
Mile Long Barracks (longest army barracks in the world)
Mongolia (once the largest empire in the world)
Mount Cook (highest mountain in New Zealand)
Mount Everest (highest mountain in the world)
Mount Fansipan (highest mountain in Vietnam)
Mount Fuji (highest mountain in Japan)
Mount Kinabalu (highest mountain in Malaysia)
Mount Kosciuzko (highest mountain in Australia)
Mount Mckinley (highest mountain in North America)
Ottawa Skating Rink (longest skating rink in the world)
Ras Al Jinz (most easterly point of Arabia Peninsula)
Shinjuku Station, Tokyo (busiest subway station in the world)
St John's (oldest city in North America)
Taal Volcano (smallest volcano in the world)
Taklamakan Desert (second largest desert in the world)
Tokyo (biggest city in the world)
Trans-Canada Highway (longest highway in the world)
Turpan (second lowest point in the world)
UNESCO World Heritage Sites (see * below)
Urumqi (furthest city from the sea)
Xinghai Square (largest square in Asia)
Yangtze River (second longest river in the world)

* UNESCO World Heritage Sites visited are:
- Aflaj Irrigation Systems (Oman)
- Agra Fort (India)
- Ayutthaya (Thailand)
- Bahla Fort (Oman)
- Blue Mountains (Australia)
- Changdeokgung Palace (South Korea)
- Dujiangyan Irrigation System (China)
- Forbidden City (China)
- Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
- Great Wall of China (China)
- Gros Morne National Park (Canada)
- Halong Bay (Vietnam)
- Huanglong (China)
- Hwaseong Fortress (South Korea)
- Jongmyo Shrine (South Korea)
- Jiuzhaigou (China)
- Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
- Kinabalu Park (Malaysia)
- Le Morne Cultural Landscape (Mauritius)
- Lunenburg (Canada)
- Melaka and George Town (Malaysia)
- Mogao Caves (China)
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape (Mongolia)
- Queensland, wet tropics (Australia)
- Qutb Minar (India)
- Red Fort (India)
- Rideau Canal (Canada)
- Salzburg, Historic Centre of the City (Austria)
- Salzkammergut (Austria)
- Schönbrunn, Palace and Gardens (Austria)
- Sydney Opera House (Australia)
- Taj Mahal (India)
- Te Wahipounamu (New Zealand)
- Temple of Heaven (China)
- Venice and its Lagoon (Italy)
- Vienna, Historic Centre (Austria)
- Wachau Cultural Landscape (Austria)

Air Canada
Air China
Air Mauritius
Air New Zealand
Alaska Airlines
Batavia Air
British Airways
Buddha Air
Canjet
Cathay Pacific
China Eastern Airlines
China Northwest Airlines
China Southwest Airlines
Emirates
Garuda Indonesia
Japan Airlines
Jet Airways
Korean Air
Malaysian Airlines
Northwest
Philippine Airlines
Pinnacle Airlines
Qantas
Qantaslink
Royal Brunei Airlines
Royal Nepal Airlines
Sabang Merauke Air Charter
Scandinavian Airlines
Silkair
Singapore Airlines
Thai Airways
Valuair